The Edmond Enterprise (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 21, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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EDMOND, OKLA., ENTERPRISE
NEWS-
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Continent Is Rising in Spots and Sinking Elsewhere
WASHINGTON.—Moat people know In a general way that large portion*
of the United States have In the pant been covered by the ocean, but It
la perhaps not ao generally known that the continent la now rising In some
placea and alnklng In others. There
la every reaaon to believe that minor
movements of the land are oonatantiy
inking place.
Not so very long ago. In a geologic
sense, the Hudaon river flowed
through a deep canyon or gorge at
New York city. SoundlngH show that
thla gorge extends through tho harbor
and far out to aea. It la evident that
the land surface haa been lowered In
thla region, allowing the ocean to
creep In on the land, fill the old river
channel, and In placea wholly aubraerge It The aubmergence of the land
was greater at one time than It la now. In excavations for some of the
New York akyacrapera remains of oyatera and other aalt-water anlmala have
been found. Aa a rule the only available knowledge In regard to the former
submergence of an area la derived from the marine ahella and other anlmala
found In deposits laid down by the aea. By the nature of the foaalla geol-
oglats are able to tell approximately when the ocean Invaded the land. They
have found evidence of a aubmergence of much greater magnitude and much
older than that which now flooda the Hudson valley.
Gotharaltes and others need not, however, feel alarmed at thla statement
of the upa and downa of tho continent, for while geologically thla submerg-
ence la not ao very old, the geologist thinks and speaks in terms of thou-
sands If not millions of years.
Along the Atlantic coast, from New Jersey southward. It Is not unusual to
find quantltlea of sharka' teeth and other marine foaalla In the green sands
that are now located far Inland and are uaed for fertilisers. In certain sec-
tions of the southern Mississippi valley, where limestone Is not readily acces-
sible, a farmer will go out and gather a wagon load of fossil oyster shells to
bum for lime.
in th^ course of Its Investigations of the geology of the country the
United States geological survey has been making a study of the cretacoous
deposits of the eastern states and has found that the ocean of that time cov-
ered much of what Is now tho Atlantic coaatal plain, while the Gulf of Mexico
spread widely over the central aouthern states, probably reaching as far
north aa Cairo, UL
Mysterious Stone Dog Over Gate on 18th Street
MEN and women, as well as children, who pass along Eighteenth street
south of F. are often attracted by a atone dog above a gate which plercea
an old brick wall incloalng half a city square of ground at the rear of a
grand, but decayed, dun-colored brick
houae that la four atorlea and base-
ment high. Tho writer has made a
number of Inquiries concerning the
history of this house, but the Informs*
tlon obtained has been contradictory
and otherwise unsatisfactory. There
is no doubt as to Its great age, as
great age is measured In Washington.
the capital of a new country, and
there Is also noAdoubt that at soma
time within a century this house was
one of the great and Imposing homes
of Washington. One bit of information which the writer obtained about this
house was that It was the home of William Wirt, who was attorney general
In the cabinet of President Jackson. The writer was not told that Wirt waa
the builder of the houae, and It appears to have been built before the time of
Jackson's administration.
For a long time the house has been occupied by the bureau of insular
affairs, or by a part of that bureau, and the last time the reporter passed
there a neighbor said that the house was to be torn down and a large and
costly government building constructed on Its site and over the ground at the
rear, which bears traces of once having been a fine garden.
The dog atatue ia that of a hunter. He la a setter, and he appears to be
looking from his place on the wall above the gate at one of tho windows at
the back of the old house. It may be the effigy of a pet hunting dog which
belonged to one of the early tenants of the house, or It may be an architec-
tural fancy.
-A GODLESS
GOD LOSES
m empire-
THE DALAI LAML of ttBlT
pjUrA.cz; or r/tZAAZAi j+nrm zr LHASA
Uncle Sam Solves the Fuzzy Hair Mystery
THE department of agriculture haa made a discovery. Some of the false
curls the girls are wearing are made of goat hair. And braving the wrath
of the fair Bex, Secretary Houston's experta give the whole thing away in a
bulletin Isaued the other day on the
Angora goat.
"Formerly," the department bulle-
tin says, "the use of mohair depended
so largely upon the prevailing fashion
that Its price varied widely from year
to year. Thla condition la rapidly
changtng, aa new uses for mohair are
continually found, from automobile
tops and table covers to dress goods
and curled false hair, and today the
grower Is assured of a reasonably
steady market"
Mohair It may be explained. Is the trade name for the fleece of the
Angora goat
The Angora, department experts declare. Is the best animal to raise, be-
cause he "works and pays for his board at the same time." He does this by
helping to clear away the brush from land, will eat weeds and any other
refuse about the place, and la invaluable in "cleaning-up" week about the
farm or ranch.
"In 1881," the department bulletin adds, "the sultan of Turkey endeavored
to preserve for his dominions the monopoly of the mohair trade by prohibit-
ing the exportation of the live animals. Hut It waa too late. Some of the
best blood waa already in America, and today other countries are buying
of us."
WAtfdHZHKAl
EWS takes a long time to trickle to
the United States from central Asia.
There are few inhabited places of
) the whole earth so far away, count-
ing time aa distance. With the coast
of Asia reached, the ,traveler must
meet many strange ^lla, endure
many torturing modes of*conveyance
and spend many weary weeks and
oven months before he reaches the
wild empire of the oriental cowboys
who once conquered the world, the
land of Mongolia.
Many wild tales have been filtering, slowly, but
surely, from that far land In the laat three years.
Narratives of butcherlngs, of wars and aggres-
sions, of little-understood political turmoils and
battlings. Out of it all has formed the very real
specter of the Russian bear, marching with heavy,
sure tread from the west, grumbling low on the
road to Pekln and Lhasa.
When China lost this empire, much more than
twice as large as the southern states which seced-
ed In 1861, and with a population of 4,000,000
yellow-skinned Tartars, little attention was at-
tracted.
The crar and his grizzled officers accomplished
their first steps by appealing to the Mongolian
sense of patriotism. Now he is bringing about
the complete subjugation of these vast plains by
corrupting a man more than a priest, a living
Buddha, one of the three embodiments of the
ancient teacher and god.
There are three living Incarnations of Buddha,
the Dalai Lama of Lhasa, who Is the supreme
ruler of the Buddhist world; the Panchen Lama,
and the Khutukhta of Urga, the Mongolian capi-
tal and holy city.
Wrhen the English soldiers of Colonel Young-
husband invaded Lhasa, the sacred capital of
Tibet, in 1904, the Dalai Lama became a holy
tramp. Far and wide, for many years, he has
wandered over the face of Asia, followed by a
motley troupe of lesser holies, exceedingly costly
to the communities which entertained him—in-
deed, almost a curse to his hosts. To some West-
erners who saw him, ho was only a brutal, sen-
aual. stupid young man; to others he was mys-
terious, sanctified, the em-
bodiment of the religion
and philosophy of tho
East. Put on the whole,
his influence diminished.
His strongest hold of the
priesthood had depended
on the fact that for nearly
two hundred years a
grand lama had not vis-
ited Peking.
When Russia decided it
was time to move their
frontier a few hundred
miles further east there
suddenly appeared a mys-
terious desire for inde-
pendence on the part of
the inhabitants of Mongo-
lia. Behind the scenes
the Russian emissaries
pulled the strings. There
waa revolt from China.
The chiefs of the wild
tribes demanded autono-
mous government. They were to be free, with
their own government and courts, even their
own army. Bitter delusion!
Russia forced the necessary acquiescence at
Pekln. Japan was brought to acquiesce by an
agreement on spheres of interest. The indignant
protests of the other powers were somehow
smoothed over. Pekin was having much more
trouble with the southern provinces, the richest
of the empire. There was no possibility of send-
ing the necessary military expeditions to Urga.
Mongolia became "free," still to a degree under
the nominal suzerainty of China and now under
the "protection" of Russia.
The Russians surged In. Their merchants fill
the market places. Their consular agents are
everywhere and these agents are very easily of-
fended. And with each offence there Is a fur-
ther decrease of Mongolian power.
On the Buddhist New Year's day the Khutukh-
ta dared fo plead Indisposition and stay away
from paying his respects to the Russian diplo-
matic representative. As a result he was forced
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GIRL STEEPLEJACK MAKES DARING CLIMB
Has No Fond Recollection of Plum Puddings
REPRESENTATIVE PHIL CAMPBELL of Kansas evidently has no fond
recollection of the plum puddings of his boyish days on the old farm back
1n the Grasshopper state. When the tariff on raisins was lowered the mem-
bers from California predicted every
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disaster the human race could know
from measles to earthquakes. The
raisin was a sacred Institution, the j
temple of liberty, the fire upon the
family altar.
In fact, no one of the raisin breed
could hare recognised himself In the
glowing picture painted by the orators
from the Golden state. The raisin,
like the flop and the mint Julep, fol-
lowed the Constitution, and only the
lowest of poltroons would dare coat a
shadow on Its time-honored name. Campbell rose In his seat In the house
and unbosomed himself.
■•Gentlemen," he said with tear* In his trembling rolce, "If the raisins of
today are like those I uaed to eat to plum pnddlng In my bare-legged youth
back to my state, I vote raisins be excluded altogether!"
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scrapers watched the daring girl with
fear and trembling,- expecting at any
moment to see her go tumbling
through space and mussing up the
sidewalk below. Miss Bennett is too
much of a lady to be the perpetrator
of such a horrible scene, so her audi-
ence was disappointed. The structure
on the left is the tower of New York's
loftiest skyscraper, the Singer build-
ing.
Fight Stories' High Prices.
Paris already posseses an organiza-
tion on the lines of the Wives' union
it is proposed to establish in London
in order to control the cost of living.
I The baker extracts 18 cents from them
I for a four-pound loaf of household
bread, and as much as 20 cents in
I bome districts, while better quality
| bread is never sold at less than six
I cents a pound. Other necessities of
I life are equally dear in proportion. In
a manifesto issued when the League of
! Parisian Consumers was formed to
j fight these high prices it is stated
I that the dearness of food is not due
J solely to high tariffs and octroi duties,
i The average Parisian shopkeeper
I wants to retire from business at the
n&czJiK ormsjoh
to appear in the most
obsequious fashion,
with as much kowtow-
ing as ever given to
the Dowager Empress
Tsi An.
The Russians are us-
ing Yuan Shih Kai to
discipline the Khutukh-
ta. Yuen, "president"
of China, has known
how to use religion to
further his own pur-
poses. He has re-estab-
lished the state religion
of China over the pro-
tests of the Christians
and the European pow-
ers. Now he writes to
the Khutukhta inform-
ing him that In the
opinion of the Tibetan
clergy, his manner of
living is open to grave
objection on account of
profdhlty, and that un-
less he mends his ways
he is likely to be re-
pudiated by the Bud-
dhist church.
The message goes
on to enumerate some
of the irregularities
committed by the Khu-
tukhta, making special
mention of his wife
and children as a
worldly possession in-
compatible with monas-
tic life.
But he might have
gone further. A phono-
graph and an automo-
bile are among the
frivolities of the ruler
of Mongolia, and he Is
very fond of betting on
athletic contests.
As one of the heads
of the Buddhist church,
the Khutukhta has no right to marry; yet no
sooner did he become independent (as he
thought) than he not only took to himself a wife,
but actually proclaimed her to be the reincarna-
tion of the goddess Chagandara!
To be anybody In Mongolia you must be the
reincaration of somebody. This takes the placo
of Norman blood.
For three years he has been allowed to main-
tain this standing scandal at his monastery at
Urga, the Russians encouraging him. But now
the Russians, using Yuan and the Dalai lama as
catspaws, are about to put the Khutukhta to the
question through the last-named worthy.
There will be little sympathy wasted on the
Khutukhta himself. He is certainly a most un-
worthy representative of the Buddhist church.
The Khutukhtas of Urga originated at the be-
ginning of the seventeenth century, when the
Dalai Lama, after a long period of real, if not
nominal captivity, at the capital of Mongolia, re-
turned to Lhasa.
The question arose: How would the Mongols
continue to live without a living
= Buddha In their midst? The Dalai
Lama then discovered that the son
Just born into the house of Tushetu
Khan, the most powerful of the Mon-
golian princes, a direct descendant of
the great conqueror of Genghis Khan,
was himself a reincarnation of
Buddha.
The marvelous boy was taken to
Lhasa, there brought up and after-
ward sent home as the first Khutukh-
ta (grand abbot) of Urga.
It was from this great appointment
that the present Khutukhta, the eighth
in the order of succession, has de-
scended—though not In the flesh. For
the Khutukhtas have no business to
marry and to establish a dynasty, but
are selected each time on the death
of the last holder of the office from
among the babies born at that very
moment.
None of the previous seven Khu-
tukhtas was allowed to live too long.
It is a sign of decadence of the old
Pekln authority that the eighth Khu-
tukhta. who was born in 1871, has suc-
ceeded in asserting his right to live so
long as this.
But his life has been a worthless
one. He has a great predilection for
strong liquors, he Is very fond of
cards, he likes the yellow, glittering
WESTERN CANADA'S
PROSPECTS FOR 1914
Excellent Spring for Work ancf
Wheat Seeding About
Finished.
The writer has Just returned from
an extensive trip through the Prov-
inces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and
Alberta, In Western Canada. The crop
conditions are the very best, and no
one locality seems to have an advan-
tage over another In this respect. The
uniformity in growth is remarkable,
and In all parts of the three province®
spring wheat at the time of writing.
May 10th, Is well above the ground
from two to three Inches. Consider-
able fall plow?r g was done last year,
and this, with the summer fallow, is
already seeded, so that practically
wheat seeding is over by this date.
Everywhere the farmers are busy and
the whole country presents one great
scene of activity—three-horse, four-
horse and five-horse teams are busy
preparing land for barley, oats and
flax. On1 some of the larger farms
batteries of steam and gasoline out-
fits are at work, but in a great many
districts where these have been oper-
ated in the past they are being dis-
placed by horses, owing no doubt par-
tially to the difficulty of securing ex-
perienced men to operate them. Any-
way, there Is being put into agricul-
ture in Western Canada, greater ef-
fort with more promise than for some
years past. The soil is in the best
possible condition; moisture has been
sufficient, there have been no winds
to dry out the soil, and If the farmers
have had to lay up for a day or so
now and again, it was merely that the
ground might have the advantage of
the rain and an occasional snow,
which promise so much for the grow-
ing crop. With some warm weather
the grain will come along in a man-
ner that will equal the best years
Western Canada has ever had.
It must not be thought from this
that the farmers are full bent on se-
curing a grain crop alone. In nearly
every district there is more and more
the Indication and inclination to go
Into mixed farming. Herds of cattle
now dot the plains that up to the
present had been fully given up to
grain growing, hogs and sheep are in
evidence. New buildings are to be
seen on a great many places, these
being pig houses and cow stables, al-
though protection of cattle Is not regu-
larly required, excepting for calve9
and such cows as It may be necessary
to house from time to time.
The growing of alfalfa and other
fodder grasses is an Industry that is
being rapidly developed.
During this spring a splendid class
of new settlers have gone in, many of
them from the eastern states. These
have seen what success the western
and central states man has achieved
In Western Canada, and are now go-
ing In In hundreds. The movement
from Montana, Oregon and Washing-
ton to Canada continues without any
abatement as to numbers and value of
effects, while the central and eastern
states are still sending an excellent
class of farmers with means sufficient
to begin farming on a scale that will
pay from the start.
Those who contemplate visiting the
Panama Exposition next year will find
that one of the most interesting trips
they can make will be via the Cana-
dian West There will be three lines
of railway they can use—the Canadian
Pacific, Canadian Northern and Grand
Trunk Pacific, all of which will have
through to coast lines completed. Thus
will be given a view of prairie, wood-
land and mountain scenery unexcelled
In America.—Advertisement
Question and Answer.
Phoebe was bored. In all the six
long .years of her life she had never
spent such a miserable day. Circum-
stances at last grew too strong for
her, and she cried. She was one of
those who do not often cry, but who,
when they do, make no secret of it
In short Phoebe nearly lifted the
nursery ceiling off.
Upstairs came Phoebe's mother, al-
ready dressed in her gladdest clothes
prepartory to having tea with a
friend.
"Why, what's the matter, Phoebe?"
she asked.
Phoebe, standing hopelessly In the
middle of the nursery, only howled
the louder and refused to see any-
thing cheerful about life.
Lifting the unhappy child up In her
arms and cuddling the tear-stained
little face against her own, the mother
walked over to the looking-glass.
"Just look. Phoebe, at that ugly lit-
tle face In the looking-glass!"
Phoebe Immediately became Inters
Mted and stopped crying.
"Which one. mother?" she asked.
age of forty or thereabouts, and bleeds
I Ills customers as much as possible. If 1 raetal more than anything else in the
i tradesmen could be persuaded to keep world. and, so far from passing his
in harness a little longer they would, 'inie in pious devotions, he rides in a
i it is thought be content with smaller motor car, plays the piano, listens to
profits. the phonograph, and has surrounded
| himself with a little harem.
India's Gay White Way. It is these worldly qualities which
Many East Indian theaters keep ! have made him accessible to Russian
their performances going until four or Influences, but it would not surprise
Constance B. Bennett, fair-haired
and good-looking, is a mere slip of
a girl not yet twenty years old. To
see her in a street costume one would
never believe that so charming a girl
would undertake feats at which many
a so-called stout-hearted man would
luail. It takes considerable nerve
to climb an 85-foot pole, 420 feet above
the street level, yet this is the particu-
lar stunt Miss Bennett is seen accom-
plishing in this picture. It shows her
shinning slowly up the flagpole atop
the Equitable Trust building, In Wall
street. New York (Sty. Thousands of
spectators in the surrounding sky-
five In the morning. These dramatic
orgies are not, says the Times of In-
dia, however, due to the length of the
plays, as in Chinese theaters, but to
the fact that the tramcars do not be-
fein running until five o'clock. As the
spectators gather from distant vil-
lages and have strong objections to
paying gharry hire, they expect to be
entertained until the trams start.
the Mongolian world to learn that
they also have brought upon him his
ruin.
For when it really proves true that
Russia has withdrawn from him her
protection nothing will save him from
the Dalai Lamas excommunication
and then a new baby promptly will
be found to preside as Jebsun Daraba
Khutukhta over the Mongolian church.
Hit the Bull's Eye.
The other evening Sir George Rid-
dell told an amusing story of a game
of golf. Mr. Lloyd George and Mr.
McKenna played somewhere In Wales.
They had to get over an awkward
bunker in the drive fTom the first tee„
and Mr. McKenna, who played first
got his ball nicely over. The crowd
of onlookers, mostly mm era who
hadn't quite got the hang of the
game, maintained a respectful silence.
Then Mr. Lloyd George drove off,
and, to his extreme annoyance^ hla
ball went straight Into the bunker.
To add to his irritation, the crowd
broke Into enthuslaBtlo applause!
They were mixing up rifle shooting
and golf, and Imagined that Mr. Lloyd,
O«orge had soared a "bull's eye!"
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